26.07.2025

RSC Anderlecht – KVC Westerlo

PREVIEW

Our Westel will take part in our country’s highest football league for the 22nd time. Through some facts, I would like to inform you about the first match of this season, a trip to Lotto Park.

Did you know?

  • Our club is in 7th place, when it comes to the total market value (+/- 50 million) of the current core. Only the top 4 (Club Brugge 200 million, Genk 150 million, Anderlecht and Union 100 million) then seem a bridge too far .
  • This the 25th edition of this competition.
  • We in those 28 years, only drove back towards Kuipje five times with points wins. In 2002 it was 3-3, in 2003 0-2, in 2016 1-2, in 2023 0-0 and in 2024 2-2.
  • Our player core currently numbers 25 pawns with an average age of 23.9 years.
  • As many as 21 of them are under the age of 25, and that average is only pulled up by the 3 ‘oldies’: Neustädter (37), Van Langendonck (36) and Sydorchuk (34).
  • We played 42 games with commitment last season, with a points gain of 1.29 per game.
  • Of the 11 players with the most playing minutes, only Tottenham players Vuskovic and Devine are out of it.
  • Koen Van Langendonck (225), Thomas Van Den Keybus (119) and Bryan Reynolds are the only 3 players from this core who have thus already donned Westerlo’s shirt more than 100 times.
  • If we play more than 40 more games this season, Kyan Vaesen (98), Roman Neustädter (91), Matija Frigan (72), Griffin Yow (69), Dogucan Haspolat (66) and Tuur Rommens (64) could also join this list.
  • Matija Frigan managed to find the way to the goal 19x and Kyan Vaesen and Griffin Yow complete the top 3 with 15 goals each.
  • On assist, Bryan Reynolds is the primus of the class, with 13. Again, Griffin Yow is second with 10, as many as our captain Dogucan Haspolat.
  • 29-year-old Simon Bourdeaud’Hui will be whistling his 26th match in the top division and the 108th in his professional career.
  • We have never lost in 7 encounters under his leadership. 2 wins and 5 draws are recorded with him.
  • Our opponent Anderlecht had him as matchkeeper once, and they lost that night at the Kiel against Beerschot (2-1).
  • Our coach Issame Charai managed to capture the Africa Cup -23 in 2023 by beating Egypt 2-1 after extra time in the Final.

Text and statistics: Peter Boons